Luna; Angel, Man, and Insect.

The insect world has a correspondence to the spirit world. On lunar days the insects we fear seem more "human." We become conscious of humanness in other words. The two spheres swirling into one another are the two boundaries of self and external mending. We are in between this world and the heavens. We also see in contrast to the humanness alienation. The slow, curious, unpredictable movement, the probing antennae. These usually scare us but on lunar days, mixed with the sensation of humanness this alienness creates a feeling of "otherworldliness." This feeling is the feeling of Luna. And this feeling is the soul's ladder to the platform above: Angel. 

So you focus on this sensation through theurgy* and "words will come from their eyes" in no time. Remember, I don't mean their actual eyes, I mean the "eyes" in the sky; stars. Those are how they speak to us across space. With glances and glimmers, radiations, that settle into us like sweetwater settles into an aquifer, or like how electrolytes settle into your blood after drinking a nice salted drink. That's how they settle in our hearts, and our hearts stir our emotions upwards into thinking. (This is a picture of the mechanism underlying astrological phenomena. Some might recall the "etherization of the blood" concept if they are familiar with Steiner). Tapping into this means becoming familiar with the "alienness" in humanity. And as this is lunary it brings us into the sphere of occultism and the ray (7) of "magical thinking." Don't think Harry Potter or even magic, but think poetic, inner vision - mythological, Blakean.



(* Theurgy is an ancient concept of invocation using objects of correspondence; i.e. the game "metroid" being an object of Luna radiates "otherworldliness" which means contemplating it can unlock Luna. 
I use this example rather than the traditional symbols of Luna - sandals, water, night, stars - to show that anything is capable of being an object of theurgy, because the essence underlying the object is immutable.)


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